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West Baltimore neighborhoods

    Baltimore ballroom ‘icon’ survives a life of grit with glamour
    Revlon is a queer Black artist who lives in Baltimore's Penn North neighborhood and has been recognized as one of the pioneers of Baltimore's ballroom scene, a subculture built by LGBTQIA+ Black and Latino communities.
    Lisa Revlon, a queer Black artist who lives in Baltimore's Penn North neighborhood, has been recognized as one of the pioneers of Baltimore's ballroom scene.
    For hungry people in Baltimore’s Penn North, Love & Cornbread is there
    Love & Cornbread, the nonprofit is doubling efforts in a new era of food insecurity in Baltimore City.
    Sue May, Founder and Executive Director of Love and Cornbread, directs volunteers left to right, Chauncey Whitehead, Annette Jackson, and Jill Yesko, setting up a food giveaway outside of Phaze 2 barbershop in Baltimore,  Saturday, November 22, 2025.
    ‘Helping out is the way to go’: Poly students create food pantry for families
    Baltimore Polytechnic Institute senior Chelsea Zellous restocks the food pantry at the school on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025.
    Baltimore Police launch raids tied to Penn North mass overdose events
    Authorities carried out pre-dawn raids and made arrests in the city Wednesday as part of a continuing investigation, sources familiar with the matter said.
    Baltimore Police and law enforcement partners carry out raids and make arrests before dawn Wednesday as part of the continuing investigation into the mass overdose incident in Penn North in July that sent nearly three-dozen people to the hospital. In the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood on Wednesday morning.
    Baltimore health commissioner links powerful animal sedative to mass drug overdose
    A powerful veterinary sedative called medetomidine was detected in two drug samples collected after the latest mass drug overdose in Baltimore City's Penn North community this month.
    Baltimore Fire Department EMTs take a stretcher to the triage area at the Enoch Pratt Free Library on Pennsylvania Avenue after rescue workers ⁩responded to a call for multiple people experiencing overdose symptoms at the intersection of Pennsylvania & North avenues in West Baltimore on Thursday, July 10, 2025.
    Man killed, child passerby wounded in West Baltimore shooting
    An adult male was killed and a young boy passing by in a vehicle was wounded during a shooting incident in West Baltimore on Saturday night.
    Baltimore Police responded to a double shooting in the 3200 block of Reisterstown Road on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. A man was killed and a child passing by in a vehicle was wounded.
    Jury deadlocked after 5 hours deliberating, leads to mistrial in senior facility shooting case
    Norman Waker, a 66-year-old man who uses a wheelchair, was charged with first- and second-degree murder and attempted murder for the shooting of two men in a senior living facility earlier this year.
    The police presence outside Pleasant View Gardens on Feb. 20 as they investigate a double shooting inside the senior living facility.
    ‘Disrespecting me’: Man in wheelchair claims self-defense in senior living facility shooting
    Norman Waker, on the third day of his trial Thursday, testified that he acted in self-defense when he shot two men, killing Clyde Barnes,79, and severely injuring Vance Winston Bey, 73.
    Police presence outside Pleasant View Gardens on Thursday, February 20, 2025, as they investigate a shooting inside the senior living facility.
    Does anyone really like Edgar Allan Poe? Or is it just a Baltimore dream?
    Edgar Allan Poe would have loathed and loved what Baltimore has done with him. “I have great faith in fools,” he wrote. “My friends call it self-confidence.”
    A parade of Ravens marches in front of the Edgar Allan Poe House during the final day of the Poe festival. on Oct. 5, 2025.
    Baltimore Police investigate 2 unrelated deaths, stabbing that left man dead
    Baltimore Police are investigating the deaths of two unidentified males found in different neighborhoods Thursday and a stabbing that left a man dead.
    A police line do not cross tape blocks a pathway near Penn Station.
    Man shot outside West Baltimore mosque in critical condition
    A man was shot and severely injured outside a Baltimore mosque Wednesday afternoon, police said.
    A Baltimore County police vehicle’s lights flash while parked outside of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Md. on Thursday, March 13, 2025.
    West Baltimore intergenerational project to honor community advocate
    Catholic Charities has big plans to renovate a nearly 55,000 square foot building into a center useful to all ages.
    The upcoming Carolyn Fugett Intergenerational Center will house Catholic Charities’s first Early Head Start program in the city.
    A Black woman’s remains were found in a Baltimore home last year. Now police seek her identity.
    The bones of a Black woman who ranges between 35-50 years old were found in a vacant property in the 1600 block of McKean Avenue last year.
    Baltimore Police released a sketch on Thursday, August 14, 2025, as they continue to seek information about skeletal remains located on August 13, 2024, in the 1600 block of McKean Avenue.
    Memories of the Penn North mass overdose keep a survivor striving for recovery
    A survivor of the July 10 mass overdose incident in West Baltimore struggled at first to find an open treatment center.
    A survivor of the mass overdose poses for a portrait in the Penn North neighborhood, Wednesday, July 30, 2025.
    A week after mass overdose, Baltimore groups implore city to fund services in Penn North
    Baltimore groups ask for more funding for drug treatment services in the Penn North neighborhood in West Baltimore.
    The Penn North neighborhood was full of emergency crews and outreach services on Friday, July 11, 2025 in Baltimore. Just a day following a mass-overdose in the area.
    She nearly died on a playground. Now this mass overdose survivor struggles to find help.
    A suspected “bad batch” of drugs that swept through West Baltimore sent at least 27 people to the hospital Thursday.
    People walk through the intersection of North Ave. and Pennsylvania Ave. in Baltimore, Saturday July 12, 2025. Days after a mass overdose incidents in the area.
    Grief and questions follow fatal police shooting of arabber BJ Abdullah
    Chair of a police oversight board and city council member say they are heartbroken and awaiting answers after Tuesday’s fatal police shooting in West Baltimore.
    In this June 20, 2018 photo, Bilal Yusuf Abdullah, center, leads a horse to an arabber stable as neighborhood boys tag along in Baltimore. Baltimore has long been the last U.S. city to have functional horse-cart vending.
    Have an artsy kid? Baltimore approved a charter school just for them
    Ten years ago, an arts nonprofit launched a popular summer program at Thomas Jefferson Elementary/Middle School. In 2026, that vision will come to life full-time.
    The nonprofit Arts for Learning Maryland is planning to convert Thomas Jefferson Elementary/Middle School in West Baltimore into Dream Academy Charter School for the 2026 school year.
    Mentors for young Baltimore storytellers pivot after funding loss
    After funding loss, the Baltimore Youth Film Arts program is sunsetting, but a new idea is rising.
    Robert Shearin is interviewed about Benjamin Banneker during the final Baltimore Youth Film Arts workshop at the Patterson Park branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library this month.
    Free legal service for LGBTQIA+ people in Maryland faces sharp funding cut
    FreeState Justice, a Baltimore-based nonprofit, received word at the end of May that $300,000 in funding from the federal government will disappear in July.
    From left, FreeState Justice staff attorney Matthew Dare, legal director Lauren Pruitt, staff attorney Amanda Donoghue, and program coordinator Traé McWhite offer legal and other services at a local resource fair in 2025.
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